food: general

My gran always told me to 'go easy on the tomato ketchup, because I'm not buying any more', this made me think she was going to die when the bottle was empty, and subsequently made me feel very guilty whenever I put it on my food - in very small amounts.

I realise now she was fibbing, since she lived 'till I was 40!

i always thought that if you swallowed an orange pit it would grow out of your head, i once was in deep distress for a whole weekend coz i swallowed one, much to my older sisters delight

As a child, i used to find toothpaste particularly yummy. To prevent me from eating too much of it, my dad always told me tht very soon, id have a 'toothpaste tree' growing in my tummy and out of my mouth. That really did make me apprehensive abt my fav meal.

When I was younger, my cousin told me that if you ate a breakfast cereal, you would turn into the character on the box.

I used to have nightmares about turning into Rory the Tiger on Frosties!

I used to believe that brocoli were little trees and that the Keebler Elves lived in them. I found out this wasn't true when I asked my mother, "Where do the elves live after we cut down their trees to eat them?"

When i was young, my parents would encourage me to eat my food and if i was ever to throw them away I would go to hell. I was scared for a while and would forced the food into my mouth even if i was full

I was convinced that cheese came from a green nice smelling plant that we call the DAUN PANDAN in Malaysia and I told as many people as I could that it truly came from the plant....till today, my kindergarten mates remind me of that very very misguided belief! .....errr I actually made them try to eat the stuff....

i used to think if you poured more milk in the cerial bowl there would be more cerial, so 1 day i overflowed the bowl of cerial.

when i was younger my family didnt go to mc donalds or anywhere like that at all becuase mc donalds chop down rainforests >still not sure if they do or not<, so it had me finkin what do they chop down the rainforests for so i came to the conclusion chips were made outa wood, a bit worrying i gues becuase i had seen chips being made at home

Only black people can eat black chicken?

It is a very common belief held by many in Northern Ireland, including myself, when younger, that corned beef was made from Argentinian horses. For those of you from NI reading this. THIS IS NOT TRUE. I had to explain this to my 25 year old wife just the other day.........

When i was little i used to wipe my food on my moms shirt becouse i thought it had germs on it.

For some reason, I always thought baked beans were "bacon beans." I think I just called them that one day, and my family stuck with calling it that, because they thought it was cute. So, when I'd be in the lunch line in school and ask for "bacon beans", I never got what was so funny. It took a very long time for me to realize I was using the wrong word.

When my brothers and I were younger, my mother used to tell us to eat all our dinner because there were children in Ethiopia that were starving. After my mom left the kitchen, I would throw half of my meal in the trash so when the homeless people rummaged through the trash, they would have something to eat. I thought I was single handedly feeding the population of Ethiopia.

I used to think that anchovies were a vegetable that tasted like chili but were unusual because if you put them in water they would float

For ages I believed that the yolk of an egg was the baby chicken that had died! I thought it was gross and it made me feel sick when I saw a runny yolk.

To make matters worse, my mum once made a hole in an egg with a pin and the air that was escaping made a chirping sound. You can guess what I thought it was - Yes - a chick that was still alive!